From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 15 21:44:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sasknow.com (h139-142-245-96.ss.fiberone.net [139.142.245.96]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C33641C1 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:44:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (freebsd@localhost) by sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA66513; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 23:45:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 23:45:22 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: FreeBSD Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Single User mode... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, FreeBSD wrote: > > Hi, I'm running a 3.3-Release box and I forgot the root pass, so I want to > boot in single user mode, but I used to use -s to do it but now I put -s > in the boot: prompt and dont do nothing... > > Can yo give me some Ideas on how to do it with this version ? > > Thanks in advance. Try boot -s at the boot: prompt. If you are actually logged in as root from any terminal (not likely, if you forgot the password and already rebooted), you can also execute a `shutdown now` to drop to single user. -- Ryan Thompson 50% Owner, Sysadmin SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message